- Being Japanese SUCKS
Everywhere sucks. Japan is one of the better places.
0 years old
I was born a boy in the city of Osaka in Japan's Kinki
Region.
My parents have named me Akira. My surname is Aoki. My
mother, Rieko, is 35 and my father, Junichi, is 40. I have no
brothers or sisters.
From my parents I have been gifted with the potential for
extraordinary intelligence.
1 year old
2 years old
3 years old
4 years old
5 years old
6 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 14 people have
died and 15,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Began school.
7 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 0 people have died and
330,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
8 years old
9 years old
10 years old
A major tropical storm has hit Japan. 51 people have died
and 190,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
11 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 2 people have died and
460,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
Cleaned up someone else's mess.
Skipped a year in school.
12 years old
A major tropical storm has hit Japan. 2 people have died and
130,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
My father has been murdered at age 53.
13 years old
Growth stunted from inadequate protein.
Met a new girl I like very much, named Asayo Hideki.
We've begun seeing each other.
14 years old
Skipped a year in school.
15 years old
Helped out a beggar.
Skipped a year in school.
My mother has hepatitis.
16 years old
Volunteered in a local humanitarian effort.
Graduated from secondary school.
Began college.
My mother has Cured of hepatitis.
17 years old
A major tropical storm has hit Japan. 88 people have died
and 180,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
Began work as a professional athlete.
My girlfriend Asayo has graduated from secondary school.
18 years old
19 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 22 people have died and
240,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
20 years old
Graduated from college with a degree in Government.
Began graduate school.
Asayo and I are now engaged.
Asayo Hideki and I got married this year.
21 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 223 people have died
and 170,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
22 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.
Sentenced to 5 years in prison.
23 years old
24 years old
My mother has rheumatoid arthritis.
25 years old
26 years old
27 years old
Released from prison.
Began work as a marketing director.
My mother has died at age 63 from rheumatoid arthritis.
28 years old
Received a 4% pay raise.
29 years old
Graduated from graduate school with an advanced degree
in Government.
30 years old
Decided to give some money to charity.
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.
Released by security police.
Began work as a doctor.
31 years old
Arrested by security forces for anti-government activities.
Released by security police.
Moved to Japan.
Began work as a doctor.
Accepted in vocational school.
32 years old
33 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 13 people have
died and 28,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
34 years old
Graduated from trade school.
I left my family.
Left my marriage.
Met a new woman I like very much, named Yoko Abe.
We've begun seeing each other.
35 years old
Yoko and I are now engaged.
Began work as a doctor.
36 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
37 years old
Yoko Abe and I got married this year.
38 years old
Wife pregnant.
Daughter Chieko born.
39 years old
40 years old
Home was broken into and burglarized.
Victim of burglary.
41 years old
42 years old
My daughter Chieko has had measles.
43 years old
44 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 145 people have died
and 180,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
Received a 11% pay raise.
My daughter Chieko began school.
45 years old
I have a peptic ulcer.
46 years old
I have been cured of peptic ulcer.
47 years old
48 years old
49 years old
50 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 2 people have died
and 62,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
51 years old
52 years old
Received a 9% pay raise.
53 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
54 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
55 years old
56 years old
I have arthritis of the hip.
My daughter Chieko has graduated from secondary school.
57 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 7 people have died and
260,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
Received a 9% pay raise.
My wife Yoko has been cured of obsessive-compulsive
disorder.
58 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
59 years old
Received a 5% pay raise.
60 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
61 years old
Received a 5% pay raise.
62 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 2 people have died and
180,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
Received a 2% pay raise.
63 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 2 people have died
and 25,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Received a 2% pay raise.
64 years old
Received a 5% pay raise.
65 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 2 people have died
and 41,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Received a 2% pay raise.
66 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 7 people have died
and 14,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Received a 5% pay raise.
67 years old
Received a 11% pay raise.
68 years old
69 years old
70 years old
Received a 9% pay raise.
71 years old
Received a 4% pay raise.
72 years old
Received a 11% pay raise.
73 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
My wife Yoko has died at age 71 from a stroke.
74 years old
75 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 7 people have died
and 18,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Refused to share money with my community.
Unexpectedly made 420,009,408 yen.
76 years old
Home was broken into and burglarized.
Victim of burglary.
Received a 5% pay raise.
77 years old
Received a 7% pay raise.
78 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 69 people have died and
170,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
Received a 7% pay raise.
79 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
80 years old
Received a 11% pay raise.
81 years old
Too old to continue working as a doctor.
Began work as a senior government official.
82 years old
Received a 9% pay raise.
83 years old
Received a 2% pay raise.
84 years old
85 years old
Received a 7% pay raise.
86 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 78 people have
died and 48,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Received a 5% pay raise.
87 years old
88 years old
A major earthquake has hit Japan. 205 people have died
and 330,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not directly affected.
89 years old
90 years old
91 years old
A major volcanic eruption has hit Japan. 28 people have
died and 26,000 others have been affected.
My family and I were not affected.
Too old to continue working as a senior government official.
Invested 783842176 yen in high-risk stock.
92 years old
93 years old
I died from general complications of old age.
I'd probably have lived to a hundred if I were a Japanese female.
Does this game not support homosexual relationships? Maybe it's a feature for a future version.
Sure it does. Expect one in ten to be gay. Gay siblings are very common. You might even see some lesbian incest rape.
I just wrote a ridiculously long comment on the front page before noticing this thread (it hasn't been approved yet), so I might as well paste it here:
The problem I have with the game is that the application of statistics is inconsistent. They're used to justify screwing the player over, but when it comes to positive things (like trying to land a husband who HAS A JOB in a wealthy country with very low unemployment) they're ignored.
Then there's things like, as others mentioned, the lack of career-related actions. There's also a distinct lack of control over your fate which really should exist for a self-sufficient adult. The early game, getting GOITER'D as a kid, is extremely well developed, but the mid- and late-game is lacking if you survive that long. All in all it's more of a YOU GOT RAPED sim than a life sim.
But, there's awesome potential there. The main thing needed is an extended actions menu which provides the player with choices such as their attitude towards family members if they have a family, their stance towards various issues if they spend time protesting, etcetera. Depending on your situation, the extended actions change. In this way you could *choose* your path more than simply relying on random dialogue boxes.
Another feature which would be very great, as well as "educational", with a slightly more positive message while still playing into their obvious pessimistic/semi-socialist YOU GOT RAPED design paradigm would be the option to play in a persistent world. What this means is, your choices and actions would make permanent changes to the world model which would affect your future lives. This would require either an extended actions list as above, or more frequent situation-oriented "decision" dialogues or above, or both.
So for example, odds are you're going to wind up in India, as a female. If you make your character a protester, and either select female rights violations as your issue of choice in the "extended actions" or in yearly dialogue boxes, well, odds are fuck all will happen. But do it with every one of a dozen characters and you have a chance permanently altering the world model to reduce female discrimination in your starting country.
For a more dramatic example, let's say your wealthy well-educated character becomes a senior government official. *His* policy choices are a lot more weighty, and have a real choice of altering policy in the direction you choose. With extended situation-dependent events, you'd also have a chance of running for head of state. You probably won't win, especially if various things you have no control over like gay siblings work against you in your country, but if you do your choices become a lot more potent. You could try to change policy directly, or become utterly corrupt, or even declare war internationally (the advantage being a likely boost in economy as long as you don't get trounced. The disadvantage would be lowering the standard of living dramatically in one or both countries. You might even be able to nuke the USA into dust, turning it into a third-world mad max-esque country for all your future radioactive mutant lives which start there).
An alternate route to power might be a military coup if you spend your life in military service and become a powerful general. Easier in poorer countries, and much harder to have a positive impact on the world model. But you could rename your African state to BUTTLAND and try to genocide an ethnic group you don't like starting as.
On a different note, other occupations would have other influences. A scientist might be lucky enough to cure AIDS and a future volunteer-type character might dedicate themselves to spreading it in affected nations, lowering the odds of contracting it and/or it's lethality there. A heavily religious character with a graduate degree in Religion might become a church leader and alter certain church policies, which would affect characters born into that religion or a state where that religion dominates.
Etcetera. I just think it would be really neat and make the game feel a lot more complete. In an educational sense it would give a class of students the opportunity to work together to create either a better world or an apocalyptic wasteland.
Also, I notice from looking at the character files that in amongst the data that's obviously recorded for selecting random events (like past diseases), there's other stuff (like your title or the subject of your education or the number of years you've spent watching TV) which don't really seem to be used for anything at all. Why doesn't the game use all this to give you a kick-arse game over screen? I want to know all about my life and my family, and have something I can take a screenshot of to show that I left a debt of $50,000 in 1-year loans to my brick-throwing bitch of a wife.
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